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Collecting Contemporary Art: a visual analysis of a qualitative investigation into patterns of collecting and production
… presents a cultural analysis of contemporary art collecting and art production with an illustration of patterns that overlap in collecting and art production practices in contemporary art. The illustrated visual network shows how institutions, local context, social strategies and prestige overlap …
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The Prize Collecting Steiner Tree problem
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Collecting Student Data for Accreditation Assessment
This paper seeks to identify one of the key problems faced by academic institutions seeking accreditation. The accreditation process requires academic institutions to conduct a self-study analyzing how well a given program is meeting the learning outcomes the accreditation board uses in its …
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Collecting Rooms: Objects, Identities and Domestic Spaces
… practice-based enquiry into United Kingdom based collecting rooms reveals five participants’ motivations, frustrations and satisfactions manifested in the creation of their spaces. Through the examination of theorists and commentators in the distinct but related fields of cultural theory, …
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K-Pop Girlies: an Investigation into Photocard Collecting
… how their engagement in fandom spaces, including collecting photocards, shapes their life. Therefore, representing a crucial aspect of interpersonal communication and community crafting. Through qualitative interviews with 11 K-pop girlies and my own autoethnography, this thesis utilized a …
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Historia spintriae : the pleasures of collecting ancient erotica
… an object that has been shaped more by its collecting history than its archaeological context? The iconography of spintriae is part of a larger tradition of erotic art, one that draws from earlier and contemporary parallels and ultimately influences the creation of pornography in the early …
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Two Methods of Collecting Clean-voided Urine Specimens
<p>The purpose of this study was to find out if there was a need to cleanse the genitalia in women before obtaining a clean-voided urine specimen.</p> <p>The experimental method was chosen as the method of study. Two clean-voided urine specimens were obtained from twenty-six nursing students in a …
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Node-weighted prize-collecting survivable network design problems
… network design problem SNDP and its prize-collecting version PC-SNDP. The input consists of a node-weighted undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and integral connectivity requirements $r(st)$ for each pair of nodes $st$. The goal is to find a minimum node-weighted subgraph $H$ of $G$ such that, for …
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Collecting Swiss lake-dwellings in Britain 1850-1900
This dissertation asks how knowledge about the past is made and transmitted, and what the role of material culture is in this process. Taking as its case study the Swiss lakedwelling collections acquired in Britain between 1850 and 1900, it uses a selection of these collections as primary sources …
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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
… an analysis of the evolution of a culture of collecting; questioning the extent to which institutional acquisitions and displays drove demand, and how shifts in taste amongst the wider collecting sphere shaped the collections now on display in public museums and galleries. As an AHRC funded …
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HOME : collecting narratives, promoting dialogue, and guiding change
… study in understanding what meaningful content collecting narratives about home can reveal. As a study in my own home, the thesis also operates as a journey of self-discovery in rethinking preconceived understandings of this concept. This research is both a personal and political statement about …
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A garbage-collecting associative memory for database systems
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982.
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MECHANICALLY MEDIATED GROWTH AND REMODELING OF COLLECTING LYMPHATIC VESSELS
… growth and remodeling (G&R) of collecting lymphatic vessels in health and disease and to ultimately identify novel therapeutic interventions to minimize the risk of occurrence, severity, or complications of lymphatic dysfunction. This PhD thesis focuses on developing a novel rat …
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Rock stories: The discourse of rocks and rock-collecting
… Renaissance and Enlightenment, the practice of collecting rocks became associated with the sense of discovery and the colonial expansion of western European civilization across world, and with advances in mining, science and industry. It is a practice that continues through to the present day. …
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Bionomy and host plant finding in oil collecting bees
… system between oil offering flowers and oil collecting bees is one of the most specialised mutualistic interactions between insects and their host plants. It occurs in four floristic regions with about 1800 plant species and 400 bee species involved. The bees collect the fatty oils to provide …
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Collecting Collects: The Family Photograph in the British Newspaper
… It draws on an ethnographic approach of finding, collecting and archiving examples of family photographs in the newspaper between 2003 - 2008. The theoretical strands central to the work explore key concepts fundamental to photographic theory, with a specific focus upon the family photograph. An …
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OPICO: A platform for collecting and analyzing emoji usage
… or description about a location. After collecting over 3500 emoji reactions and having over 900 users on the app, the results demonstrate emoji-only communication provided concise forms of expression about various locations across the world. Data analysis has uncovered the various …
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Collecting Ideals: Re-envisioning ejidos as climate-action platforms
… and intensifying metropolitan inequality. In "Collecting Ideals: Re-envisioning ejidos as climate-action platforms" I argue that ejidos, have and are still playing a major role in the urbanization and development of more rural settings in Mexico, particularly in regions with small towns. I …
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